The aggregators suddenly stopped incentives to the drivers in an attempt to stem their ballooning losses. It was not only the number of rides or hours logged in by the drivers that made them earn close to a lakh till a few months back.

In an effort to curb illegal plying of old vehicles in Noida, Ghaziabad and other NCR regions, the state government on Friday restricted the number of districts which can issue fresh NOCs to such vehicles. Now, only 37 districts, most of them in central and eastern UP, can issue the NOC. Earlier, a person could get an NOC from districts around NCR region including Gautam Budh Nagar.

The latest directives, issued after a meeting chaired by Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, came on a day the three-day-long shutdown of schools began, construction and demolition came to a halt and a power plant closed owing to a toxic smog blanketing the city since Diwali.

As per the suit filed, Royal Enfield has infringed Flash electronics’ patent on “Regulator Rectifier Device and Method for Regulating an Output Voltage of the Same” duly issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to Flash Electronics on February 20, 2018 after Flash’s R&D department made a breakthrough invention of the component in 2014.